Carrot cake Easter recipe

Celebrate a festive Easter with this delicious treat: the creamy Instant Pot carrot cake. With a combination of herbs, juicy raisins and creamy icing, this cake is not only perfect for an Easter brunch, but also as a dessert after an extensive Easter dinner. By using the Instant Pot you can have this on the table in no time. Enjoy a tasty treat with your loved ones with this delicious carrot cake!

Servings: 6

Cooking time: 90 minutes

Equipment: Instant Pot

INGREDIENTS:

Cake:

• 125g flour

• 50 g golden raisins

• 50 g golden caster sugar

• 50 g light brown sugar

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 tsp ground cinnamon

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice

• 80 ml olive oil

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten

• 350 g carrot, finely chopped

Glaze:

• 200 g cream cheese soft

• 200 g icing sugar

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Preparation method:

1. Grease and line a cake tin.

2. Mix the raisins with 1 tablespoon of flour in a small bowl so that they are well coated.

3. Combine the remaining flour, caster sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, ground ginger, nutmeg, and allspice in a large bowl.

4. Combine oil, vanilla and eggs in a separate bowl and add to flour mixture. Stir gently until combined, then fold in the carrot and raisins.

5. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan and cover with foil, then add inch-long slits in the foil at 12/3/6 and 9 o'clock.

6. Pour 250 ml of water into the inner pot, lower the pan onto the trivet and close the lid.

7. Select Slow Cook and program the time for 1 hour and 30 minutes. (If necessary, cook additional time until a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.)

8. When the cooking program has finished, remove the pan from the inner pot and let it cool in a pan for 10 minutes. Then invert onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

9. Once cool, make the frosting by beating together the cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla extract until smooth; then spread the glaze over the cake.